Advertisements from long, long ago — coffin nail edition

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Back when smoking was “cool”. I tried smoking twice and didn’t like it, but my twin smokes like a chimney. I have several friends who do too. My husband quit a few years ago, but still craves them.

I was playing a video game set in an alternate timeline where they’d invented a nanotechnology introduced in the food that cured cancer, so smoking never became socially unacceptable like it is in our world today because there were no health hazards attached to it. I wonder if it would catch on again should such a “cure” be found in our world?

I tried it once when I was in high school. Many people my age were starting to smoke, and I was curious to know what the attraction was. One night I was babysitting for some neighbors, the kids were asleep, the house was quiet, and a pack of cigarettes lay on the table… so why not? I took one, lit up, and attempted to smoke the thing — “attempt” being the operative word. It was one of my more ignominious failures, and the only consolation was that there was no one around to witness it.

I remember a lot of these ads and how suave and sophisticated it LOOKED to effortlessly suck on one of those things. I ‘smoked’ for about a week once, but my primary addiction, food, soon put that down…you can’t TASTE after you’ve been smoking a while. Give me the filet mignon and creme brulee thanks..

In another 30 years, we’ll be looking at medication ads in the same way we look at cigarette ads. Many women started smoking in the 1930’s – 1960’s because doctors thought it was good for their health. I remember walking into restaurants before there was a smoking section. You knew going in that it was going to be that way. I had to leave a restaurant more than once because some Fat A— lit up a cigar. By the 1980’s, if you smoked you were pariah.

I never smoked and never liked it — just commenting on the changes in what is socially acceptable. If corsets start coming back in style, it’s time for me to die. 🙂

Chesterfield may have much milder adverse effects, but the significance of this claim depends on how severe the effects of the other brands were. Either way, there are adverse effects. I wouldn’t take my chances.